On 12/08/2010 11:16 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Finding the real bug is beyond me right now, but fixing the regression
> in disable_ipv6 is simple.  We can just delete ::1 when we bring down
> the loopback interface, and it will be restored automatically when we
> bring the loopback interface back up.

Hi Eric,

This would work as well, same check, different way.

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <[email protected]>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 23cc8e1..5d16a9d 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2728,7 +2728,8 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_device *dev, int 
how)
                   and not link-local, then retain it. */
                if (!how &&
                    (ifa->flags&IFA_F_PERMANENT) &&
-                   !(ipv6_addr_type(&ifa->addr) & IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL)) {
+                   !(ipv6_addr_type(&ifa->addr) &
+                     (IPV6_ADDR_LINKLOCAL|IPV6_ADDR_LOOPBACK))) {
                        list_move_tail(&ifa->if_list, &keep_list);
 
                        /* If not doing DAD on this address, just keep it. */

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